Tod, Adorable Instigator (Proxy) by Beardsman

Format: Commander

Commander: Kros, Defense Contractor

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Bant Midrange build commanded by Kros, Defense Contractor, designed to manipulate the combat step while accumulating massive +1/+1 counter value. The strategy focuses on distributing counters to opposing creatures, which triggers Kros to tap and goad them while granting them trample. This turns opposing armies against each other and clears away potential blockers. Concurrently, the deck utilizes high-efficiency counter doublers such as Bristly Bill, Spine Sower, Branching Evolution, Innkeeper's Talent, and Court of Garenbrig to build an overwhelming personal board state. Evasion enablers like Herald of Secret Streams and Champion of Lambholt allow your creatures to bypass defenses entirely, while alternate win conditions like Simic Ascendancy and Finale of Devastation close games quickly. Supported by robust fast mana, redundant creature tutors, and premier reactive protection, the deck excels at dictating table tempo and closing out games in the mid-game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abandoned Air Temple
• 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Bloom Tender
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Branching Evolution
• 1 Breeding Pool
• 1 Bristly Bill, Spine Sower
• 1 Carpet of Flowers
• 1 Champion of Lambholt
• 1 Chord of Calling
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Court of Garenbrig
• 1 Crystalline Crawler
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Eladamri's Call
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Eternal Witness
• 1 Evolution Sage
• 1 Evolutionary Escalation
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faerie Mastermind
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 1 Flawless Maneuver
• 1 Flooded Strand
• 1 Force of Negation
• 1 Force of Vigor
• 4 Forest
• 1 Forgotten Ancient
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Glen Elendra Archmage
• 1 Grand Abolisher
• 1 Hallowed Fountain
• 1 Hangarback Walker
• 1 Hardened Scales
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Incubation Druid
• 1 Innkeeper's Talent
• 1 Invasion of Ikoria // Zilortha, Apex of Ikoria
• 3 Island
• 1 Kami of Whispered Hopes
• 1 Karn's Bastion
• 1 Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
• 1 Kodama of the West Tree
• 1 Kros, Defense Contractor
• 1 Llanowar Elves
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Marsh Flats
• 1 Maze of Ith
• 1 Misty Rainforest
• 1 Muddle the Mixture
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Nesting Grounds
• 1 Nils, Discipline Enforcer
• 1 Noble Hierarch
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Pact of Negation
• 1 Path to Exile
• 3 Plains
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Prismatic Vista
• 1 Ranger-Captain of Eos
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ripples of Potential
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Selesnya Signet
• 1 Sheltering Ancient
• 1 Silence
• 1 Simic Ascendancy
• 1 Simic Signet
• 1 Sin, Unending Cataclysm
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solitary Sanctuary
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Talon Gates of Madara
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Trouble in Pairs
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Verdant Catacombs
• 1 Verity Circle
• 1 Volatile Fault
• 1 Windswept Heath
• 1 Wooded Foothills